What did you do in your garden today?

[Meadowlark]

Planted Amish Peas in companion with seed potatoes planted previously. The potatoes are just now breaking the soil surface as can be seen below.

Unfortunately, I ran out of the Amish pea seed about halfway down the row and it is too late to order more.

Looking forward to cream peas and new potatoes in May

 

[big rockpile]

beautiful spot

Thank you!

 

[Meadowlark]

I'm changing to a more aggressive strategy on tomatoes this year. The recent several years have been trending much hotter here shortening the window for fruit set in spring and ending production in early July.

This year I'm trying to widen that window by a couple of weeks by planting out early. Started today. There is certainly risk of frost, but the risk of hot weather is much greater in my estimation.

Hence, my strategy is to grow out two "strings" of seedlings. A first string, the primary and a second string, a backup. First string going in the ground.

If I lose these, replacements are ready to take their place.

 

[dirty hands]

Trimmed my boxwoods because there was a lot of damage from winter. A lot of brown tips and then I found this. Guess I have a project for tomorrow.

Im guessing its powdery mildew.

 

[Tundra20]

I'm changing to a more aggressive strategy on tomatoes this year. The recent several years have been trending much hotter here shortening the window for fruit set in spring and ending production in early July.

This year I'm trying to widen that window by a couple of weeks by planting out early. Started today. There is certainly risk of frost, but the risk of hot weather is much greater in my estimation.

Hence, my strategy is to grow out two "strings" of seedlings. A first string, the primary and a second string, a backup. First string going in the ground.

If I lose these, replacements are ready to take their place.

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thats good plan kinda what im doing here will plant this week they say another cool snap but its good bet we dont cause last week we had a 28 degree morning so gona take a chance here too

 

[Meadowlark]

... they say another cool snap ...

March 15 seems to be the magic date here...current predicted low of 26 deg here on that night. I'm betting against it.

 

[Sheal]

Im guessing its powdery mildew.

That looks too heavy for powdery mildew and not widespread enough on the plant @dirty hands. In fact it looks more like spilled paint to me.

 

[Sheal]

March 15 seems to be the magic date here...current predicted low of 26 deg here on that night. I'm betting against it.

That's a long way off @Meadowlark. Are your forecasts that precise? We're lucky here if the forecasts are right for the current day.

 

[Meadowlark]

That's a long way off @Meadowlark. Are your forecasts that precise? We're lucky here if the forecasts are right for the current day.

Precisely why I'm comfortable betting against it.

 

[dirty hands]

That looks too heavy for powdery mildew and not widespread enough on the plant @dirty hands. In fact it looks more like spilled paint to me.

I think the black mulch is to blame. I found more white stuff in a few other areas today.

No white paint used out there.

 

[big rockpile]

I ordered some Trays.

Going to plant Cabbage and Onions I’m thinking first of April. Their up.

Think I’ll plant Potatoes then.

big rockpile

 

[Sheal]

I think the black mulch is to blame. I found more white stuff in a few other areas today.

No white paint used out there.

You could well be right about the mulch @dirty hands, that will hold the dampness to create it. Does the mulch have the mildew too?

 

[dirty hands]

You could well be right about the mulch @dirty hands, that will hold the dampness to create it. Does the mulch have the mildew too?

Yes. I found a couple patches of it in different areas.
I had some fungus spray i used on that boxwood and the boxwoods around it. Im going to keep an eye on it for now. I see some other boxwoods that look dark brown in some areas too.

 

[Sheal]

You could try clearing the mulch away from the base of the plants, giving them about a 1ft clearance all round.

I see some other boxwoods that look dark brown in some areas too.

That's a little worrying, it could be the start of Box blight. Many gardeners here in Britain have been losing plants in recent years.

Box blight: Causes, Symptoms & Control | RHS Advice

Box blight is a fungal disease of box that causes bare patches, brown leaves and dieback, especially in topiary and parterres.

www.rhs.org.uk

 

[dirty hands]

Yeah its concerning me. I saw it last spring too their first year in the ground but but it seemed to clear up over summer and now its back.
Thanks for the link Shael.